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It goes without saying that 2020 has been a hell of a year. While the pandemic has upended work, school, and life in general, it’s also shone a bright light on the glaring inequities of Internet access, quality of that … Continue reading →

By Georgia Bullen and Kelsey Smith of Simply Secure Over the past two years teams from Simmons University, Measurement Lab, and Internet2 have worked together, and more recently with Simply Secure and Throneless Tech, to build a tool that gives power of … Continue reading →

It’s been a busy start to the year for the MLBN team! Beginning in mid-February we began shipping new, upgraded measurement computers to our year 1 libraries, along with the current version of our training manual. Year 1 libraries are … Continue reading →

We are honored to announce that our research is featured in the following post, titled “Networks, Knowledge, and Power in U.S. Public Libraries,” featured on the MIT Network Sovereignty blog, a NSF-funded research project led by Principal Investigators, Ramesh Srinivasan (UCLA) … Continue reading →

We’re now in the full swing of site visits to our year 1 libraries, visiting Pasco County, FL; Pryor, OK; and Twin Falls, ID over the last three weeks. At each of the ten year 1 libraries, we’re interviewing staff … Continue reading →

Welcome to the website for our research project, titled “Measuring Library Broadband Networks for the National Digital Platform.” Over this two-year project, researchers at Simmons University, along with New America’s Open Technology Institute, and Internet2, will examine how advanced broadband measurement capabilities … Continue reading →